From: G Anna <drguruolai@eth.net>
To: pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: char-major-6
Date: 20 Apr 2002 18:26:26 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m34ri6wmth.fsf@wobble.eth.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0204191440500C.04062@unix.pa3gcu>
> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 14:40:50 +0000
> From: Richard Adams <pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl>
> Subj: Re: char-major-6
[snip]
> I've only seen one reply to this mail, i will try and explain whats
> happening and possably shed some light on the other discussion about
> devices not being found.
That supposedly mean that I should have got one more mail on this.
But I haven't. Yours was the only mail I got and it had all the help
I needed. Thanks.
> The above message is saying that the program modprobe cannot find a
> module called "lp" which is char-major-6 (to answer your question),
> now either you configured your kernel without lp support or the
> needed modules were not installed beforehand, those are; parport and
> parport_pc if those are loaded (can be seen with the command
> 'lsmod') then you did not configure your kernel with lp module
> support.
I set the CONFIG_PARPORT, CONFIG_PARPORT_PC, CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_CML1
and CONFIG_PRINTER to 'm' and recompiled the kernel. Now everything
is working fine. ;-)
Thank you very much for the help.
> Or it could be that IRQ 7 is in use by some other device, check that
> with the command 'cat /proc/interrupts'.
Thankfully, my problem wasn't that difficult!
(much snipped away)
Cheers,
anna
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-20 12:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-19 3:55 char-major-6 G Anna
2002-04-19 14:08 ` char-major-6 Tom Beer
2002-04-19 14:40 ` char-major-6 Richard Adams
2002-04-20 12:56 ` G Anna [this message]
2002-04-20 18:02 ` char-major-6 Richard Adams
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